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Fun Fact: The Most Magical Ice Cream Cakes Are Also the Easiest to Make

Ali Slagle, provided by| on August 10, 2017

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We partnered with Talenti Gelato and our favorite ice cream tinkerer Cristina Sciarra to show you how to make an ice cream cake that towers above the rest.

When we were dreaming up recipes for Ice Cream & Friends, one of the most spectacular things longtime Food52 superstar Cristina Sciarra taught us is that the bigger the ice cream cake, the better. (I'm not sure they teach you that at ice cream school, which she did indeed attend—I think that's just her own smarts.)

It's not just because a towering ice cream cake is dazzling: Because it's so big, it freezes up really solid. That means when you take it out of the freezer, put candles in, sing "Happy Birthday," and cut the cake, that cake isn't a puddle.

Oh, and you get to eat a ton of ice cream—or gelato, or sorbetto—at once.